Dragon Raja 5; Chapter 193: For Your Majesty (8)

Dragon Raja 5

Tens of thousands of tons of steel collided with tens of thousands of tons of steel, shaking the ice sea and causing huge cracks to rapidly spread in all directions.

The YAMAL’s keel deformed like a giant bow, then rebounded. The keel’s springing caused the hull to deform, and the portholes from bow to stern cracked in an instant, each window spewing out snow-like glass fragments.

But it withstood the onslaught. Finger made the only correct decision, using the Yamal’s hardest bow to strike the enemy’s most vulnerable midship. The black ship was like being severed by a sharp blade, and the Yamal was like that sword, piercing through the flames and ice.

Everyone on board indirectly bore the brunt of the impact. Half the men in the steering gear had their pants down to their knees, trying to imitate Rybalko’s maneuver. Rybalko removed his belt and strapped Professor Schneider to a wall rail. This effectively provided Schneider with a makeshift safety belt. A collision of this magnitude was roughly equivalent to a car traveling over 60 kilometers per hour crashing into a utility pole. Without a seatbelt or airbags, Schneider’s condition was unlikely to survive. Of course, not everyone had time to find a secure anchor, so at the moment of impact, at least three or four Russian men, their pants torn, were left flying in the steering gear.

As for Rebalko, who had lost his belt, he managed to keep his dignity. The superb qualities of the former Alpha Force special forces soldier were fully demonstrated at this moment. The man held the waistband of his pants with one hand and held the other handrail with one arm, relying on his arm strength to stabilize himself.

The ambitious helmsman Finger failed to hold on until the last moment. He was actually holding the steering wheel tightly and trying to withstand the impact as handsomely as Rebalko – although this guy was a loser, no one questioned his physique even inside Cassel Academy, which was probably due to his talent of eating from morning to night – but after the ice surface cracked, the sea water splashed into a wave nearly ten meters high. The cold sea water rushed into the steering gear room, wrapped in a large group of Arctic shrimp, and washed away the hero who had just turned the tide.

The black ship, broken into two pieces, was still sliding on the ice. Rebalko immediately rushed to the control console and quickly checked the instruments.

The YAMAL was still intact after the collision, but that doesn’t mean the ship was not damaged. Soviet-era equipment has always been known for being rough but sturdy, but it is still a precision machine after all. Damage to some internal structures is enough to cause it to completely lose power.

The corner of Rebalco’s eye twitched suddenly. The pointer of a certain instrument exceeded the safety upper limit and entered the dangerous red zone. The pressure value of the third power compartment was seriously exceeded.

The YAMAL has three power compartments. The first and second power compartments are nuclear power compartments. If they explode, the consequences will be a terrible nuclear leak. The third power compartment is equipped with a smaller diesel engine with no risk of nuclear leak, but it can explode…

“Everyone on board! Prepare for the second impact!” Rebalco shouted.

Before he could finish his roar, the YAMAL shook violently again, even more powerful than the impact. The Russian men, who had just escaped death and were still trying to pull up their pants, were shocked to the point of spitting blood, and the power supply to the entire ship was cut off again.

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Mai Jude witnessed the explosion of the third power compartment with her own eyes. At that time, she was crouching on the top floor of the YAMAL’s cabin like a crouching tiger. The rear deck was torn apart by the raging flames. A huge machine rose into the air in the column of fire, and then fell to a height of about 30 meters, smashing the huge gantry crane on the YAMAL.

It was the large diesel engine installed in the third power compartment.

Jude Mai had received the highest level of ninja training and could lie still against a wall for hours, so collisions were no big deal to her. She didn’t stay in the cabin because she was worried it would deform and crush her to death, and she was also out of a sense of caution.

Of course, she could also guess that all their contact with the outside world was cut off within the range of the ice storm. When approaching the North Pole, even the most traditional compass was useless. It felt like the misty forest prepared by the witch for the knight in the story. When the knight rode his horse into it, terrible things would line up in an orderly manner.

Ice storm, abandoned black ship…what’s next?

Of course, she wasn’t afraid. She had seen too many great things, stranger and more magnificent than this. If there really was a witch or god behind all this, she, like Caesar, wouldn’t mind meeting it. The knife was sharpened and it was looking for you everywhere, and you came to your door, saving you the travel expenses.

So when the third engine compartment exploded, she was just watching the excitement, even considering taking out her phone to film the scene. But then she turned and saw the diesel engine, propelled by flames, soar into the sky. The shockwave was so strong that even her “cicada-attachment” technique, used to stabilize herself, was ineffective. She was carried by the strong wind and was about to fall like the diesel engine, smashing something and herself. Fortunately, she almost always carried a rope gun with her. She turned in the strong wind and fired a rope dart accurately. After the shockwave passed, she swung lightly to the YAMAL’s antenna.

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